“Syme was not only dead, he was abolished, an unperson.”

Depressed? Here are some of the good results from last night

I’m no apologist. The Dems got their asses handed to them, and some of them surely deserved it. Still, with so many votes, a few good things were bound to happen, right? Here are some off the top of my head. Feel free to add more I may have missed in the comments.

(1) Tea partiers threw away a few Senate seats that normal Republicans could have won. This includes seats in Delaware, Colorado, and Nevada. The Senate will likely have 53 Dems instead of 50, which is a pretty big deal.

(2) Another tea partier appears to have lost a seat to one of the few successful write-in campaigns in history. Sarah Palin’s handpicked successor in Alaska looks to be down by quite a lot to Lisa Murkowski.

(3) Meg Whitman spent $140 million of her own money and all she got was… nothing.

(4) California will now only require a simple majority to pass a budget instead of 2/3, hopefully making the state more governable.